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r q 1 r-J S C3 Instruction materials center at Sutheriin was proven highly-successful last year under the direction of Mrs. Ruby Holloway, shown here with her back to The News-Review camera. Mrs. Holloway is pictured handing a film strip to junior high school teacher Mrs. Genevive Mur phy. The moterials center, located in the Sutheriin Junior High library, was o pace-setter for the area. . New State Law Changes Title Of County Office The office of the Douglas County Supt. of Schools has officially been changed in title, but will remain basically the same in operation, effective Sept. 2. A new state law, brought into ef fect by Senate Bill 409 of the last legislature, changed the title of the district from the Douglas Coun ty Rural School District . to the Douglas County Intermediate Edu cation District. County Supt. of Schools Kenneth Barneburg said there will be no changes required in the staff of the county office. He said the change made by the legislature provides specifically for the coun ty office to be . more of a service unit to the local school districts. The law points out the county of fice may provide services and fa cilities including, but not limited to (1) central purchasing) (2) li brary facilities; (3) curriculum materials; and (4) special teach- School Census Figures Viewed Figures available from the Doug las County School office show the average daily membership in all school districts in the county last year was 17,076 students per day. Heading the list was Roseburg, with an average daily membership of 6,205, Next came Myrtle Creek, 1,637, Winston-Dillard at 1,508, and Sutheriin at 1,253. Smallest average in the county was at Ash Valley (Loon Lake) with a daily membership of 6 in the one-room school. Other average membership figures: Oakland L'anyonville Gardiner Glide Days Creek Camas Valley Drain Yoncalla Elklon Umpqua Kiddle Glcndale Reedsport Elementary 520 373 177 945 326 164 778 477 236 43 628 523 883 Reedsport Union High 393 ers and special types of education. This may be done through a county-wide levy upon resolution by two-thirds of the local school boards which have at least a ma jority of the pupils included in the average daily membership 'of the district; or by a contract agree' ment with individual school dis tricts. The method to be used here will be determined later, and the office will operate this year as it has in the past. The law provides that present members of the Rural School Board will finish out their unexpired terms. Those members are Chair man George A. Wilcox of Oak land; Eugene H. Fisher, Elkton Frank White, Gardiner; Harold Glover, Roseburg; Marion Krebs, Winston; Guy McGee, Days Creek and Harry Young, Glide. The law also provides that all members of the budget board shall be members of a local school board when appointed to the coun ty committee. The board will also Tsoard and committee for reorgani zation of school districts. Barneburg explained the new law removes most of the statutory du ties of the county superintendent of schools when he served as an elective oflicer and gives these du ties to the board as elective offi cers. The superintendent remains executive officer and secretary of the board, thereby continuing in the same basic capacity. Legislature Boosts State School Funds Property taxpayers from all over the county get a break of sorts this year with announced increases in the Basic School Support Fund and the Common School Fund. The increased amounts were add ed to the anticipated revenue sec tions of all district school budgets and equal amounts were subtract ed from tax levies needed to bal ance the budgets. The county's 19 school districts will receive a total 82,952,109.58 from the Basic School Fund and $205,849.84 from the Common school fund. Ash Valley, the small est district, receives $1,936.95 and $90.40. utt herlim) Unpamids 'Creative Program Studeimt' 1:19 U CU u i One of the newest developments in the ever-increasing attempt to adapt modern education to meet the needs of today's student is the creative student program develop ed last year by Sutheriin Junior High School principal Richard Scott. The informal experimental pro gram dealing with creative stu dents in the Sutheriin district at tracted interest throughout the Pa cific Northwest last year and is expected to increase this year as the program is expanded and materials and controls added. Scott, who originated the pro gram with the encouragement and help of Dr. Paul Torrance of the University of Minnesota, reports that plans call for establishment of similar grouping at the fifth grade level in both elementary schools in Sutheriin this fall and establishment of a control group at the eighth grade level. The latter will include 12 students of high creative ability and 12 of lesser creative ratings but with matching intelligence and achievement scores. This is the only program of its kind in the nation. The students are tested in the spring to discover creative factors'. The test is one devised by Scott with initial help and approval from Dr. Torrance. Test scores are compared with teacher ratings on observance of some of the creative factors and the top ranked stu dents are grouped for the creative classes. Among the tested and observance factors identifying the creative stu dents are unusual art and writing abilities, a distrubing effect when in a group of peers, ability to en tertain contradictory facts and come to' a logical conclusion, ex treme highs and lows in interests, occupational goals, desire for in dependence in activity, and thoughts on unusual uses for com mon objects. Interest Shown Since the article on the program in the December 1962 issue of Ore gon Education and a talk given by Scott at the fourth annual Oregon Education Association Research Conference in Portland, inquiries about the program have come in with an ever-increasing crescendo. Dr. Henry Osibov, director of re search for the OEA, reported 1,000 abbreviated brochures on the pro gram have been dispatched from his office. In Sutheriin requests for visitations, speeches and additional information contained in a tnree times revised compilation on the program have been coming from all parts of the state. Educators and groups expressing interest in and seeking further in formation about the program have been from Seaside, Oregon City, Glide, Hood River, Roseburg, Port land, Medford, Myrtle Creek, Winston-Dillard, the Douglas County Elementary Principals Association, the California Testing Bureau, Min nesota, and others. A recent May visitation brought five elementary principals from the Medford school system. The principals visited the creative class then discussed aspects of the pro gram and its future with Suther iin Superintendent Raymond Mul len and Principal Scott. The Med ford group included Robert Phil lips, Ronald Weatherford, Harold Pre-Registration Needed Eighth graders who are new res idents in the Myrtle Creek school district must pre-register at the upper elementary school. The of fice will be open Aug. 19 from 9 a.m. p.m. Boner, Francis Guidry, and Bruce Metzger. In the latest revision of informa tion on the project, Scott has in cluded present and future aspects of the program, comments from Dr. Torrance, identification factors for teachers, the test devised and used to identify students at the 4th and 6th grade levels and results of the 1963 testing with observa tions and notes on correlations be tween teacher ratings and test scores. Identification Important Scott expressed hope that inter est in this program will bring to smo other districts the need for identifi cation and understanding of the creative student whether he is plac- ea in a Heterogeneous or a homo gencous setting. "These students often whistle a different tune and are often mis understood at home, among their peers and in the classroom, he said. "They desperately need un derstanding of what they are try ing to communicate. Without this understanding, they often become discipline problems and even po tential dropouts. With it, they have the path lighted for many signifi cant contributions to society." si ! JW- 'V SUTHERLIN JUNIOR HIGH students remain classed together 'in the special groupings for -creative students. Here the same group as pctured below in a science class receives in-.' structions in Mrs. Alice West's language arts class. Principal Richard Scott, who became " the first in the nation to try such a program when installed at Sutheriin last year, re- ports it is drawing a great deal of attention throughout the Northwest. (News-Review"' Photos) s-'- y-wjag"t ,r i . ii f - , V . V-1J the first ast year become such CREATIVE STUDENTS at Sutheriin Junior High School children in the nation to receive instruction in SDecial classes involvina the nrouninn of students with -high creative factors. Shown here are a group of the students in the science class of instructor Anton Brown. The program is being expanded this year to include 5th, 6th and 7th grades. 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